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I receive the following error when I try to restore a database to SQL Server 2008 from SQL Server 2008 Express R2:
The database was backed up on a server running version 10.50.2500.
That version is incompatible with this server, which is running 10.00.4064.
Either restore the database on a server that supports the backup, or use a backup
that is compatible with this server.
Is there anything that I can do to fix this or am I stuck using SQL Server Express?
You cannot go “back” in SQL Server versions – if your database is on 2008 R2 (v10.50) – you cannot back it up and restore it onto a 2008 (v10.00) version.
There’s no trick, no workaround, no hack – it just cannot be done – period.
So you either need to upgrade your target system to 2008 R2 as well (Express will do, as long as the size is below 10 GB), or you need to script out structure and data to
.sqlfiles to run those on your “old” 2008 system (possibly using third-party tools like Red-Gate SQL Compare / SQL Data Compare to create those scripts and possibly run them against the target server directly).